zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org
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TMKF (THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS) 9000
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Exact Audio Copy feels like it should come with a .FLAC of the members of Steely Dan talking shit about your music collection
dear software makers: if you're expecting a more helpful answer out of me for the question "how will you use our product" than "i will make dope shit" i hope you like continued disappointment
i have had an extremely stressful day. my head reverberates with the rageful sussurus of a hornet's nest and my body aches like an empty factory. i have consumed painkillers and Relax-O-Drugz™ and will spend the next few hours bemoaning the fact that The World Was Ever Thus.
if you love me, send me pictures of Raquel Welch or Optimus Prime for to soothe my tortured optics.
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As many of you have noticed, being an "antifascist" means you are federally classified as an "anarchist violent extremist" under domestic terrorism laws.
Since your own government has labeled dissent as terrorism, and you a terrorist, it might be time to start preparing for "when it happens here."
What does this mean?
Well, terrorist is a scary word, right? It's a charged word, and that's important. They call people scary words to justify sending their militaries to kill them. They just so conveniently happen to be super funding their domestic militaries as they do this.
We shouldn't fall into false comfort that, because they aren't busting in doors left and right, that they don't absolutely mean what they say, or that they would never do that here. They already do - in targeted communities, SWAT, Parole, ICE, DEA, ATF. Why not you?
You are criminalized, and you need to be planning accordingly.
You need to begin thinking like a criminal and building sympathy for other criminals it you're going to survive the coming decade. Criminalization causes diaspora, forced migration, incarceration, displacement, dehumanization, death.
You should be taking these things with utter seriousness and understand that just because our government is inefficient in helping us doesn't mean it's inefficient. It's two most efficient outputs is violence and death, and they will absolutely come for you before the ink dries from their pen.
Plan accordingly, plan locally, and plan secretly. We are not clandestine because the cloak and dagger is cute and attractive - there are tools for self defense targeted people have used to protect themselves from the government for hundreds of years. Learn them and use them. Think like a criminal.
Do not think because you washed your hands and wiped your ass and showed up to work on time that you're magically safe. In fact, repression normally begins at the soft targets and works its way up to the harder to reach fruit, so you may be shit outta luck on two counts for keeping your hands clean.
Be smart. Be safe. Be dangerous, and plan accordingly.
Check out our linktree for the community antifascist guide and learn about affinity groups, doxxcare and security culture. Safety starts with you. Fight with the tools that work and protect each other.
i can't believe this song has never made its way onto an official Pokemon soundtrack.
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People in #Georgia are getting arrested for terrorism for sharing these names of the police responsible for killing #Tortuguita an #Indigenous #queer environmental activist and forest defender
Do not be silenced
#CopCity
#StopCopCity #DefendTheForest #justicefortortuguita
i suck at art.
i blame my poor fine motor control, which also makes my handwriting like unto an illegible mass of alien hieroglyphics. i also blame the fact that i seem to lack a sense of aesthetics on a creative level, a kind of internal feng shui that says THIS shape and THIS color look good in THIS lighting and as a result my living space is cluttered, dark, chaotic, lacking both form and function.
anybody with any artistic sense or experience, having seen something i've produced, could recognize one of my other art projects a mile away; my unique terribleness is as distinct a fingerprint as the brushstrokes of a genuine Matisse. i see things i've made or painted and see every poor decision, lack of planning or precision or expertise reflected in the final product.
but i keep doing it. because i like doing it.
the act of creating art, low or high, skilled or amateur, is theraputic, and that is a value that cannot be replicated by AI.
FINALLY. Zeno's Computer Desk has been completed.
now i just need to move it off the flooring, adjust the flooring, put it back in the right spot so that the flooring stays put, get my new PC's cabling cleaned up and case back on, move everything onto the new desk and set up, determine which of my secondary systems are going to have room, figure out where the VCR is gonna go, get all my backups back online, get the old PC''s SSD set up for additional storage, reassemble the PC case, install all the software i need, paint the ceiling vent cover, figure out how to improve the lighting setup, start thinking about shelving and...
crap.
i haven't been thinking clearly lately.
not saying things are improving. just taking notice of the obvious.
got a head full of ghosts tonight. fitting, i suppose.
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#STL Tower Grove Pride was pretty awesome.
i tabled for the DSA for a few hours and had a great time. for one thing, people were actually engaged and interested in what we had to say, and none of it felt like a hard sell; i had some interesting conversations with folks who were on different levels of engagement and very few shied away.
for the other, everybody was in a *good mood* and genuinely happy to be there in the sunshine in a safe environment, being themselves, wearing whatever, feeling welcomed, just...vibing. i don't think i've ever experienced anything like that before, on this kind of scale.
in any crowd, i always have my head on a swivel unless i feel generally at ease. today was no exception, i kept watch for people who stood out, but not for the sake of standing out--people dressed "normal" or visibly trying to blend in while looking nervous or frightened or angry. i was expecting shit-disturbers, and while i'm sure there were some (a comrade found a guy handing out Chick tracts), the worst i witnessed were some perplexed and bored-looking dads. everywhere else i looked were people experiencing joy and community with no filters or worries or social shields up, and i nearly cried thinking about it on the drive home. *i want this,* for everybody, forever.
the only really negative thing--and it was a source of hilarity for my group--was the presence of a Libertarian Party tent a few spaces down from us. i was tempted to march down there and go all Niedermeyer on 'em. "WHAAAAT THE HELL IS THAT? IS THAT A RAINBOW GADSDEN FLAAAAG???? IN YOUR PRIDE TENT????? WHAAAAAT DO YOU WANNA DO WITH YOUR LIIIIIFE?" (libertarians are unable to answer "I wanna rock" because they all think they should be the lead singer and nobody wants to play bass.)
heeeeey kiiiiiids, it's time once again fooooooor
(kids yell) "UNKIE ROBOT'S PLAYHOUSE" (wacky music intro)
that's right kids! ya know, ol' unkie robot's been very very productive today! he's gotten a lot accomplished and knocked a handful of items off his to-do list! and you know what THAT means! that means tomorrow my energy levels will be?
(kids yell) "ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC"
THAT'S RIGHT! and how will that make unkie robot feel?
(kids yell) "COMPLETELY USELESS"
righty-o again kids! and why is that? becaaaaaause...
(drumroll)
(kids yell) "YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON"
THAT'S RIIIIIIGHT!
(wacky clown music, confetti, sparklers, CHUNG CHUNG CHUNG CHUNG CLACK CLACK CHUNG CHUNG CHUNG SPLUT)
i am REAL goddamned fucking tired.
does anyone know how many times i have to listen to "Rez" by Underworld before it hard-reboots my cognition cores? eleven times? is it twelve? more? hmm?
let's ah-find out.
EVERYBODY GET IN HERE, I HAVE LOCATED A NEW HILL TO DIE ON
not only is "THEY LIVE" a documentary, but it exists in the same universe as "Videodrome."
also, "THEY LIVE" is painfully, almost scathingly more relevant now than it was at the time of release. you owe yourself a re-watch.
it's September first. that creaking, cracking, breaking sound you hear is the Auld Gofficks in your neighborhood emerging from their sarcophagi in search of absinthe and clove cigarettes and a place to look morose at without being hassled.
beautiful, isn't it? the cosmic ballet goes on.
mh (--)
[after a day of intense competency, forward motion on both job search and a personal project, and general Getting Shit Done] wow, i'm moving past the awfulness. i feel okay. i'm not panicking. is this the legendary "go time?" am i even mentally ill anymore?
[after a night of screaming anxiety dreams and a morning where i could just barely drag my ass out of bed to do a pointless Teams interview, eat a shit-ton of carbs and collapse back in bed] hmm. (insert Bowie's "All The Madmen" here)
corollary: if you listen to the Tron: Uprising soundtrack, it's the same, but you have bad hair and your limbs are helllllla loooooooong for some reason
(nothing but love for my Uprising peeps out there, #TronLives)
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TMKF (THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS) 9000
owner of driveinsaturday.org
head projectionist for Drive-in Saturday, the internet's premier movie-riffing organization ("Joel who?")
- = flesh is fleeting, chrome is forever = -
Joined Nov 2022
